[Air-l] Panel on Quantitative and qualitative methods for the study of new and old forms of political participation, 4th ECPR General Conference, Pisa, 6-8 September 2007

[Moses Boudourides]

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4th ECPR General Conference, Pisa
6-8 September 2007

Standing Group: "Forms of Participation"

Quantitative and qualitative methods for the study of new and old
forms of political participation

Chairs: Moses Boudourides (mboudour at upatras.gr), Luigi Ceccarini
(l.ceccarini at uniurb.it)

This panel focuses on methodological issues related to political
participation and its transformations. It welcomes papers from
scholars who have conducted or are currently involved in conducting
research on political participation and have tested (or defined) new
measures or have revisited the classical ones in their studies of
collective action and its expressions. In particular, the panel will
address the following topics: new hypotheses and
new theoretical perspectives for explaining current participation and
involvement; the adaptation of classical concepts theoretically and
methodologically for the study of new democracies; innovative
operational definitions of concepts related to participation;
typologies that include the traditional as well as "emerging" forms of
individualized or collectivistic actions like political consumerism
and modes of e-participation, and how the
Internet and Internet-based methods can be used to study political
participation.

Guidelines and deadlines for participants

Prospective participants should contact the chairs of the panel in
which they are interested, bearing in mind that they will be expected
to present a paper and should, therefore, be conducting advanced
research in that particular area.

Deadline for applications to panels: 31 January 2007.

An application to participate should include a short summary of the
proposed paper (maximum 250 words).

Panel directors will inform applicants as to whether they have been
accepted shortly after the deadline for applications has passed.
Confirmation of participation by those accepted should be made to them
as soon as possible, so that if there are any spaces, people on
reserve lists can be offered places.

Once accepted, paper givers should complete the GC3 form and send it
to their panel chair as an email attachment.